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1547144

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	date	30/11/2022
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
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	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Hereditary Peers: By-elections
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what checks are made to determine whether peers on the Register are willing to put their names forward for hereditary peer by-elections; and how often any such checks are made.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
	uin	HL3889
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>All those on the register of hereditary peers maintained under Standing Order 9(4) who were members of the House before the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999 indicated their willingness to stand in hereditary peer by-elections, either before the first edition of the Register was issued on 13 November 2002, or subsequently. Hereditary peers who have succeeded to their titles since 1999 are required to petition the House to “direct the Clerk of the Parliaments to enter [them] on the register of hereditary peers who wish to stand in any by-election for election to Your Lordships’ House”.</p><p>Every peer on the register is contacted before each by-election to ask if they wish to be a candidate, and if a peer no longer wishes to be included on the register, they can request that their name be removed from it at any time.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 13/12/2022 15:49:57 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

1547146

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2022
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Hereditary Peers: By-elections
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker whether he will publish a list of each peer on the Register of Hereditary Peers that has contested a hereditary peer by-election; and in each case, on what date or dates those by-elections took place.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
	uin	HL3891
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>The information is given in the attached table. Hereditary peers who have been successful candidates in by-elections, and who are therefore no longer included in the Register, are not listed. The ‘by-election name’ in each case is the title of the former member whose death or resignation from the House precipitated the by-election.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 13/12/2022 17:24:59 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble attachment 1 file name Hereditary peers who have contested hereditary peer by-elections.xlsx title Hereditary peers who have contested by-elections
	tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott